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Timeline: Explorers
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- 1271 Marco Polo’s journey Venetian Marco Polo sets off for Kublai Khan’s China; his account will make Europe dream.
- 1325 The travels of Ibn Battuta Moroccan Ibn Battuta leaves Tangier on a journey of almost 30 years, from Africa to China.
- 1492 Columbus reaches the Americas Christopher Columbus crosses the Atlantic and lands on an island in the Bahamas, thinking he has reached Asia.
- 1519 Magellan sets off round the world Magellan leaves Spain with five ships; only one returns, three years later, after the first voyage round the world.
- 1534 Jacques Cartier in Canada Breton navigator Jacques Cartier explores the Gulf of St Lawrence, in Canada.
- 1770 James Cook in Australia Captain James Cook maps the east coast of Australia, where he discovers kangaroos.
- 1804 The Lewis and Clark expedition Lewis and Clark set out across North America to the Pacific, partly guided by Sacagawea.
- 1911 Amundsen at the South Pole Norwegian Roald Amundsen and his team are the first to reach the South Pole, with sled dogs.
- 1953 The summit of Everest Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay reach the summit of Everest, the highest mountain in the world.
- 1960 The bottom of the Mariana Trench The bathyscaphe Trieste dives almost 11,000 metres to the deepest point of the oceans.
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